فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Gérard Larcher, President of the French Senate (the upper house of the French Parliament), who has been on an official visit to Morocco since Sunday, will travel to the Moroccan Sahara on Tuesday.
This visit comes just days after the terrorist attack in Mulhouse (eastern France), in which the main suspect, of Algerian origin and residing illegally in France, had previously been issued an order to leave French territory after serving a prison sentence for advocating terrorism.
According to the French government, Algeria has “refused ten times” to allow his return to its territory.
Amid this tense context with Algeria, Larcher arrived in Rabat on Sunday at the invitation of the President of Morocco’s House of Councillors, Mohamed Sheikh Biadillah, “to strengthen interparliamentary cooperation and the friendship between the two countries,” as stated in a press release from the French Senate.
Accompanied by several members of the upper house, the President of the French Senate is also scheduled to meet with Morocco’s Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, in Rabat before heading to Laayoune on Tuesday, where he will “reflect France’s new position, which affirms that the present and future of the Sahara fall within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty.”
Prior to Larcher, French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati had already visited the Moroccan Sahara in February, a move that Algeria described as “particularly serious” and “condemnable on multiple levels.”
